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How Apple Will Make A Fortune From The Voice If looking at the clouds in the sky inspires you as much as it inspires Jonathan Miller, this desktop might be right up your alley. A few well placed and unobtrusive widgets positioned around the top and sides of the screen so they’re in view while he’s working, and some little fluffy clouds in the centre for when everything else is minimised, and you have an attractive, functional desktop that doesn’t get in the way of your work.
Flickr user (and Arch Linux forum member) Paanini loves Arch Linux and loves customising his desktop. We love Arch too, and when we saw this beautiful twilight wallpaper, customised with some sharp-looking Conky scripts and a dash of Todo.txt, we had to highlight it.
Flickr user jerome_martinez_one hates icons and prefers text labels for his desktop. This workspace takes that approach to just about everything, including how applications are launched. It’s all text on a beautiful wallpaper, and it’s functional to boot.
Flickr user d_carr wanted a workspace that was minimal but sprung to life when it was time to get some work done. Well, mission accomplished — the combination of a beautiful wallpaper, a few Rainmeter widgets and auto-hidden launchers is both minimal, functional and easy to recreate.
A glowing night city and a rare astronomical event lay the groundwork for Flickr user Tasha Ward‘s desktop, on top of which she’s built an informative, intelligent and useful HUD thanks to a little Rainmeter wizardry.
Mac: It’s been a while since we’ve seen a really great GeekTool desktop customisation, so when Flickr user Hang Lu submitted this gorgeous one above, we took notice. The Geeklets are useful and well-positioned, and frame a gorgeous wallpaper that’s worth downloading even if you don’t set up the rest.
This stunning desktop from Flickr user Tj Tantiangco combines a gorgeous wallpaper with only the bare essentials when it comes to desktop widgets. The result is a desktop that’s simple, attractive, relaxing, and will make you feel a little less stressed when you sit down to log in in the morning or come back from a long meeting.
If you’re going to have widgets and status boxes and RSS feeds on your desktop, most people would agree they should at least be unobtrusive and not a distraction from the wallpaper or the overall theme. In some cases, they can even compliment your HUD, like the Rainmeter theme that Flickr user Adrian Lupas used to create this simple but informative desktop.
When we say this is “the original desktop,” it’s not because it’s the first one, or because it’s totally unique, but because Flickr user Bassam Rajput has an inspiring wallpaper that encourages us to be original. The widgets and gadgets he has on his desktop, made with Samurize, Rainmeter and more, don’t hurt either. The whole package looks great.
Flickr user Wyatt Wellman started experimenting with Rainmeter and came up with this desktop, which includes the basics like time, date and temperature, but keeps them out of the centre and off to the sides of the screen. The end result is a featured desktop that complements his work instead of competing with it.
